144 FAMILY HERBAL. 



a promoter of venereal desires ; but with what truth 

 one cannot say. Externally applied in cataplasms, 

 it is excellent in hard swelling's. There are a great 

 many other kinds of orchis in our meadows, but 

 only this is used. The root, called salep by our 

 druggists, is brought from Turkey, and is the root 

 of a plant of this kind. It is strengthening and 

 restorative, good in consumptions and all decays. 



Fox-glove. Digitalis. 



A very beautiful wild plant in our pasture?, 

 and about wood-sides. The leaves are whitish, 

 and the flowers large and red. It is three feel 

 high. The leaves are large, long, rough on the 

 surface, pointed at the ends, and serrated roun< f 

 the edges. The stalks are round, thick, firm, ant 

 upright, and of a white colour. The flower, 

 hang down from the stalk in a kind of spike : the) 

 are hollow, red, large, and a little spotted with 

 white ; they are shaped like the end of the finger 

 of a glove. 



The plant boiled in ale, is taken by people of 

 robust constitutions, for the rheumatism and other 

 stubborn complaints ; it works violently upwards 

 and downwards ; and cures also quartan agues, and, 

 as is said, the falling-sickness An ointment made 

 of the flowers of fox-glove boiled in May butter, has 

 been long famous in scrophulous sores. 



Frankincense Tree. Arbor thurifera. 



A large tree, as is said, a native of the warmer 

 countries, but we know very little of it. Those 

 who describe it most, only say that the trunk is 

 thick, the wood spungy, and the bark rough. 



